Careful Confessions is the 2004 independently produced debut studio album by Sara Bareilles.

Bareilles produced alongside college friend Gabriel Mann, prolific singer/songwriter, music producer, television and video game music composer, and member of Los Angeles alternative rock band The Rescues.

Mann had produced two albums for Awaken, the college a cappella group Bareilles sang in while attending UCLA.

[5] After Bareilles was signed to Epic Records in 2005 and the success of her second and major-label debut Little Voice in 2007, Careful Confessions was reissued in early 2008.

[6] All songs written and composed by Sara Bareilles; track 3 additional composition by Javier Dunn[1][7]